The 100 Best Vegetarian in the World
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Kitchens that cook without meat and still earn professional honors: the vegetarian places the critics and guides rank highest, worldwide, best first.
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Three floors of earth-toned private dining rooms sit quietly behind the plane trees of the Former French Concession, feeling less like a restaurant than a place designed to lower your blood pressure. Fu He Hui is vegetarian fine dining with two Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, where set menus rotate quarterly and each course spotlights a single vegetable, fruit, or flower, paired with regional teas.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: #64 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The 50 The 50: #11 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- The 50 #64 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- The 50 #11 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 2. Oyster Oyster
Vegetarian American
A nine-course vegetable tasting menu in Shaw where the chef holds a James Beard Award and a Michelin star, and still manages to make a beet taste like pastrami. Rob Rubba's kitchen treats local farms as the whole point, not a selling line, and the results are the kind of thing that makes omnivores quietly reconsider their priorities. The bread alone, enriched with "garleeks" and served with sunflower-marigold butter, gets talked about for days afterward.
The awards
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2023 · Winner · Outstanding Chef · Rob Rubba
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Food & Wine Food & Wine: The Top 15 US Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Winner · Outstanding Chef · Rob Rubba
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Food & Wine The Top 15 US Restaurants
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A food forest outside Nijmegen supplies the kitchen, and chef Emile van der Staak turns what he finds there into a fully plant-based tasting menu that holds two Michelin stars. Fermented tofu, almond-based "Brie", a kombucha skin crisped into something that tastes uncannily of prawn: the cooking is precise and quietly strange in the way that earns those comparisons to fine dining without any of the familiar anchors.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · #6 · Lekker 500
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 4. Dirt Candy
Vegetarian American
Amanda Cohen has been making vegetables the whole point since before that was a thing anyone said, and her Lower East Side tasting menu is where that conviction lands hardest. One menu, no substitutions, seasonal produce pushed through pickling, raw preparations, and desserts that can't quite decide if they're sweet. A Michelin star and a James Beard nomination confirm the kitchen's seriousness, even when the food is having fun.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2012 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Amanda Cohen
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- The New York Times 2012 · 2 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best Chef: New York State · Amanda Cohen
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A Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in a converted warehouse on the waterfront, where vegetables and fruit carry about ninety percent of the menu, with game and shellfish filling the rest. The chef frames it as cooking by season rather than by protein, and the plates show it: spring becomes a single bowl, winter a slow-roasted root. Organic and natural wines throughout, and the industrial-vintage room hums like somewhere locals found before the guides did.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · #82 · Lekker 500
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Vegetables get top billing at this Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant inside the Borgo Egnazia resort, where the kitchen treats a heritage Puglian carrot or fava bean with the same seriousness most chefs reserve for prime cuts. The team works closely with local growers, and the cooking tends toward intense, concentrated flavors with elegant plating. Even confirmed carnivores rarely seem to notice what's missing.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- 50 Top Italy 50 Top Italy: #24 · The Best Italian Restaurants - Luxury
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Rank 5. Freia
Vegetarian Nordic
A greenhouse with timber arches sits on top of a contemporary building, growing its own herbs and berries while offering a panoramic view over Nantes. The creative tasting menu from chef Sarah Mainguy leans heavily plant-based, with Scandinavian and Asian currents running through it, and holds a Michelin star. Expect dishes that read like riddles and resolve into something delicate and precise.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Eight full-time gardeners tend the kitchen garden here, which tells you most of what you need to know. La Chassagnette is a Michelin-starred restaurant in the Camargue where the farmhouse sits inside three hectares of permaculture gardens, orchards, beehives, and a tropical greenhouse. Chef Armand Arnal runs two set menus, one of them vegetarian, shaped by whatever the land is doing that day, with the occasional quiet nod to Japan.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 5. Superiority Burger
Vegetarian American
The quinoa-chickpea-walnut burger that made Brooks Headley famous is still on the menu at this vegetarian burger shop in the East Village, now in a bigger room with vintage diner bones. Nothing here pretends to be meat, which turns out to be the whole point. The Michelin Bib Gourmand and a New York Times top-100 spot follow naturally from cooking that treats bold seasoning and smart texture as the actual job. Save room for dessert; Headley came up as a pastry chef.
The awards
- Eater Eater: The All-Time Eater 38
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2015 · 3 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
- Eater The All-Time Eater 38
- The New York Times 2015 · 3 stars, Critic's Pick · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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You ring a bell at an unmarked door in a hotel courtyard, climb a creaky staircase, and arrive at a Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant that used to be a nightclub, which somehow feels very Berlin. The industrial room runs five to seven courses, strictly plant-based, with vegan options and wine or alcohol-free pairings. The staff are unhurried without being slow, and the crowd ranges from committed herbivores to the merely curious.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- Eater Eater: The 38 Essential Berlin Restaurants
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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You ring a bell to be let in, which sets the tone nicely for one of Nuremberg's most quietly serious dining rooms. This two-Michelin-starred restaurant in the old town runs a vegetable-forward tasting menu with a "leaf to root" philosophy taken to its logical extreme, drawing entirely from the region. The front-of-house team fields questions about the food with enthusiasm rather than impatience, which says something about the room.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 10. Horváth
Vegetarian Austrian
A two-Michelin-starred restaurant on the Landwehrkanal in Kreuzberg, with a terrace tucked from the street and a room where period wood panelling meets a Jim Avignon mural. Sebastian Frank's set menu is vegetable-forward in a way that sounds like a manifesto, with dishes named "mushroom liver" and "fuck caviar." The wine list leans Austria and Eastern Europe, which at this level feels almost punk.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 10. King's Joy
Vegetarian Chinese
Tucked into a hutong near the Lama Temple, this serene fine-dining restaurant holds two Michelin stars and makes a serious case for vegetarian cooking without leaning on the word "vegetarian" as the point. Chinese classics get quietly disassembled and rebuilt using techniques borrowed from both sides of the world. The menu rotates every two weeks, so regulars keep coming back, which they do.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Stars
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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A small, intimate vegetarian bistro in the Navigli area where the two chefs change the menu regularly enough that returning feels like a different meal. Tasting menus run four or nine courses, and staff walk through each dish with the kind of attention that could tip into earnest if the food weren't so good-looking. The Michelin Guide has selected it, and 50 Top Italy ranks it first among vegetable bistros.
The awards
- 50 Top Italy 50 Top Italy: #1 · The Best Vegetable Bistros
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Eater Eater: The 37 Best Restaurants in Milan
- 50 Top Italy #1 · The Best Vegetable Bistros
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 37 Best Restaurants in Milan
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Seaweed pressings on deep blue walls and dried grasses set the coastal mood at this small, plant-forward restaurant in Kitsilano. The menu rotates around whatever vegetables the kitchen is currently obsessing over, and the cooking is the kind that makes omnivores forget to keep score. A no-tipping policy made headlines when it opened, but the food is what keeps people coming back. It holds a Michelin Guide selection.
The awards
- Air Canada Air Canada: 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
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The awards
- Air Canada Air Canada: 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best Canada's 100 Best: #79 · Best Restaurants
- Tastet Tastet: 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best #79 · Best Restaurants
- Tastet 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Arabelle Meirlaen grows much of what she cooks in the garden out back, and the terrace over it is the place to be in summer. This is a one-Michelin-star creative restaurant where vegetables and spices lead, floral aromas run through everything, and the chef's own intuition sets the menu. She offers a vegetarian option alongside a meat-and-fish version, and the owner-sommelier builds the wine list around rotating themes rather than the usual categories.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 17. avatāra
Vegetarian Indian
A light green dining room in a Dubai Hills business park, with an altar-like pass where chefs finish each dish in full view of the tables, sets the tone for what follows. avatāra holds a Michelin star for its multi-course vegetarian Indian tasting menu, where each dish arrives with its own story, which the team delivers with enough warmth to make the ritual feel earned rather than rehearsed.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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A Michelin-starred vegan tasting menu restaurant in Schöneberg, where the six or seven courses change with what local producers are bringing in that season. No meat or fish, and the kitchen doesn't seem to miss either. The cocktail pairings are as considered as the food, the young team talks through every course without making it feel like a lecture, and there's a cookery school next door for when dinner isn't quite enough.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The kitchen here is supplied by a market gardener growing more than 300 varieties of vegetables, fruit, and herbs, which tells you almost everything about the menu before you sit down. This Michelin-starred creative restaurant on the Loire leans heavily into produce, brightened with citrus and the occasional Asian inflection, with seafood threading through when the chef feels like reminding you he hasn't forgotten the ocean. Quietly serious cooking in a quietly serious room.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 17. Daigo
Vegetarian Japanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rodrigo de la Calle calls himself a culinary ambassador for the plant kingdom, and the open kitchen behind the bar counter at this tasting-menu restaurant makes the case quietly: you watch, you ask, you eat. Evenings lean introspective and formal; lunch keeps the same ethos with looser footing. Menus run from fully vegan to options with fish or meat folded in. It holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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You ring a doorbell to get in, which sets the tone for what follows. Encanto is José Avillez's intimate vegetarian tasting menu restaurant, tucked next to his Belcanto, with books lining the walls and arching overhead like a cozy fever dream of a library. The menu is strictly plant-based, seasonally driven, and technically serious, paired with biodynamic wines and house-made kombuchas. It holds a Michelin star, which the vegetables apparently earned on their own terms.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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A thousand square meters of permaculture garden sits behind this quiet village restaurant, and almost everything on the table grew there. The chef runs a vegetarian and vegan tasting menu, nine courses mid-week and thirteen on weekends, with all diners seated at the same hour. It holds a Michelin star, which pairs oddly and perfectly with the back-to-the-soil philosophy. Zillertal locals and committed pilgrims share the same unhurried room.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Gilded ceilings and frescoes of angels overhead, and a plant-based tasting menu below, which is either a contradiction or a perfect match. This Michelin-starred restaurant in Ixelles has been doing zero-waste, micro-seasonal vegetable cooking since well before it was a dinner-party talking point. The sommelière runs a beverage program serious enough to match the kitchen, and the whole operation publishes a sustainability report, because of course it does.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Rank 17. Joia
Vegetarian Italian
Dishes named "With the Favour of the Moon" and "The Rose I Did Not Pick" give you a sense of what kind of vegetarian fine dining this is: philosophical, a little rapturous, and genuinely pretty on the plate. Pietro Leemann built the room around the idea that meatless cooking could carry the full weight of Italian fine dining, and it holds a Michelin star. Tasting menus set the pace; a five-course lunch plate keeps midday from turning devotional.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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The menu is printed on seed paper you can plant at home, which sets the tone for this Michelin-starred creative vegetarian restaurant in Vienna's first district. A surprise tasting menu built around seasonal, regional produce changes with what's good, and the open kitchen keeps the compact room feeling easy rather than precious. Wine pairings or alcohol-free pairings, your call. The kind of place that takes the food seriously without making you feel like you should do the same.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 17. Légume
Vegetarian Korean
A fully vegan tasting menu in Gangnam that draws on Korean vegetarian traditions without making that feel like a restriction. The chef's approach is precise and personal, coaxing real depth from plant-based ingredients in ways that don't read as compromise. It holds a Michelin star, and the room skews toward curious omnivores as much as committed vegans. Elegant without being austere.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 17. Moulin d'Alotz
Vegetarian Basque
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The kitchen team grows and forages much of what lands on your plate, including produce from their own garden, which makes the ingredient sourcing conversation here feel earned rather than performative. NeoBiota is a one-Michelin-star creative restaurant in Cologne serving a seasonal set menu that runs mostly vegan and vegetarian, with pescetarian and omnivore courses available. The wine list leans natural and biodynamic, with solid by-the-glass pairings throughout.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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The open kitchen anchors a room that hums like a gastropub, with sharing plates of vegetarian cooking rotating through the seasons. Fabian Fuchs runs the kitchen, turning carefully sourced vegetables into dishes worth the table argument about who gets the last bite. It holds a Michelin star. In summer, the little square out front fills up fast, so the terrace is its own reason to plan ahead.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Housed inside the grounds of Schloss Schauenstein, OZ takes its name from the Romansh word for "today" and runs a nine-course vegetarian tasting menu built around an estate permaculture garden. Guests sit at a U-shaped counter close enough to chat with the chefs, which gives the room a warmth that formal tasting menus don't always manage. It holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Slate floors, warm plaster walls, and a counter facing the kitchen set the mood at this Michelin-starred vegan restaurant on Old Street. Kirk Haworth trained in classical kitchens and it shows: the cooking treats vegetables with the same seriousness most chefs reserve for a Sunday roast. The maitake mushroom with black bean mole is the kind of dish that stops a conversation mid-sentence.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 17. Racines - Bruno Cirino
Vegetarian Mediterranean
A Michelin-starred vegetable restaurant in Nice where the menu is a single set of whatever the kitchen garden offered at its peak that day. Bruno Cirino and his team have built the whole thing around local organic produce, coaxing something quietly extraordinary from garlic, olive oil, artichokes, and basil. The room is small, the price is not what you'd expect for a star, and the wine list runs the same way.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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A former piggery with high ceilings, hanging herb boxes, and a Michelin-starred kitchen feeding no more than twelve people at once. Simon Tress runs a vegetarian set menu that changes four times a year, with everything except the salt sourced within 25 kilometers. Small cards arrive with each course to explain the provenance. The room is deliberately convivial, the service informal, and the whole thing feels less like a restaurant than someone's very well-fed living room.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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A one-Michelin-star vegetarian restaurant tucked into a historic Vienna townhouse, where the menu runs six or eight courses and can bend fully vegan on request. The kitchen leans hard on seasonal Austrian produce and coaxes depths of flavor from vegetables that make you forget you were expecting meat. Organic wines or thoughtfully built non-alcoholic pairings round things out, and the service is the warm, unrushed kind that makes a long tasting menu feel like a gift rather than an endurance sport.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Potts Point's fully vegan fine dining room went plant-only before the rest of the industry caught up, which is either admirable timing or a very long bet that paid off. The chef behind it has spent years making vegetables do things vegetables don't usually do at this price point, and the kitchen earns its three chef hats from the Australian Good Food Guide without leaning on novelty. Book ahead; the room is small and the cooking has a following.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 16/20 · Three Chef Hats
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Sydney, Australia
- Australian Good Food Guide 16/20 · Three Chef Hats
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Sydney, Australia
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A Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant steps from the Bern Minster, ZOE runs a seven-course menu built around whatever the season is doing right now. The room upstairs is spare and handsome, the service warmer than the minimalism might suggest, and there's a terrace when the weather cooperates. Natural wines and alcohol-free pairings are both taken seriously. Lunch brings a shorter menu for people who have afternoon plans.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Bread arrives as a course in its own right here, which tells you most of what you need to know about how seriously this all-vegetarian restaurant takes itself. The team, both trained under Niko Romito, runs a tightly focused kitchen in central Isernia where technique does the heavy lifting. Nothing on the plate is decorative; everything earns its place, and the cooking has a clean, unshowy confidence that a lot of meat-forward restaurants would envy.
The awards
- 50 Top Italy 50 Top Italy: #6 · The Best Vegetable Bistros
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Pale wood furniture, bright windows, and a menu that treats vegetables with the same seriousness most kitchens reserve for a prime cut. This is a casual modern restaurant in Trébeurden where the kitchen leans hard into local produce and a zero-waste approach, running spice and heat through plant-forward plates without ever feeling preachy about it. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a room that feels this unfussy about doing things carefully.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 42. Dialogues
Vegetarian French
A cream façade on rue du Helder opens into two rooms: a fine dining restaurant upstairs with emerald banquettes and a backlit marble counter, and a cave à manger downstairs for something looser. The kitchen is entirely vegetarian or veggie-seafood, with plants carrying every course. The mural alone is worth studying while you wait for whatever the team is doing to celeriac this season.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Patio tables beside the wine store are gone before you think to ask, which tells you something about this cosy gastro bistro in Nijmegen. The kitchen leans hard into plant-forward cooking, drying beef heart in koji and shaving it over meat, or coaxing carrots and beetroot into something that reads as charcuterie. Natural wines fill the list. The chef's instincts run a little unsettling, in the best possible sense of the word.
The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Named for the Norse goddess of nature, this compact vegetable-forward restaurant in the Saint-Charles neighbourhood builds its menu around produce treated with the same care usually reserved for premium proteins. Fish from the Saint-Jean-de-Luz market makes occasional appearances, but vegetables carry the room. Diners at the same table share plates, which either sounds like your thing or it doesn't. Natural and organic wines come by the glass, chosen and poured with evident enthusiasm.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 42. Konijnenvoer
Vegetarian Mediterranean
The name means "rabbit food" in Dutch, which tells you exactly what the kitchen is working against. This plant-based restaurant in Arnhem turns local and fermented ingredients into something Mediterranean-inflected and genuinely textured, selected by the Michelin Guide for its trouble. An antipasti bar up front keeps things casual if you just want to graze. Old-school interior details sit alongside contemporary design, and the crowd tends to arrive curious rather than skeptical.
The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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A small creative restaurant tucked into the Petite France district, where the team cooks modern, mostly plant-based food in full view of the dining room. The sourcing is local and seasonal to a degree that borders on a personal philosophy, with natural wines and house-made kombuchas to match. The room is relaxed enough that nobody will make you feel underdressed for caring about what you eat.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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A grocery-bakery at the door sets the tone before you've sat down. Savage is a plant-forward set-menu restaurant in the Saint-Boniface neighbourhood, where the single nightly lineup leans on herbs and vegetables, with meat or fish available to add from the refrigerated counter by the restrooms, which is a very Savage way to handle the choice. The terrace catches the neighbourhood's easy energy, and the cooking is precise enough that the radish cream and the marinated carrot get their own moment.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
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Sunchoke with salal berry and burnt onion isn't a dish you'd find yourself ordering on instinct, which is part of the point at this creative vegetarian fine-dining room in Mount Pleasant. The kitchen names its organic BC suppliers on the menu and takes texture as seriously as flavor. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and first-timers tend to do well surrendering to the tasting menu rather than pretending they know what salal berry tastes like.
The awards
- Air Canada Air Canada: 2013 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine Vancouver Magazine: 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Sustainability Award
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Air Canada 2013 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Sustainability Award
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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The chef's counter at this vegan tasting menu spot on Belmont seats you close enough to watch the kitchen improvise, and some dishes on any given night will never appear again. Aaron Adams moves between produce-forward simplicity and molecular technique without making either feel like a statement. The sourcing runs local and specific, down to tofu from an old-school Portland maker. The New York Times put it on their Portland shortlist.
The awards
- The New York Times The New York Times: The 25 Best Restaurants in Portland, Ore., Right Now
- Condé Nast Traveler Condé Nast Traveler: The 23 Best Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
- Portland Monthly Portland Monthly: The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Portland, Ore., Right Now
- Condé Nast Traveler The 23 Best Restaurants in Portland, Oregon
- Portland Monthly The 50 Best Restaurants in Portland Right Now
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A vegan tasting menu in East Austin where the farmers who grew the ingredients get credited on the menu alongside the courses, which sets the tone nicely. The room is small and spare, the cooking is seasonal and quietly inventive, and focaccia arrives with caramelized garlic butter that earns its own moment. Fine dining prices, no leather, no fish.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: #8 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
- Eater Eater: The 38 Essential Restaurants in Austin
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation #8 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Austin
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Austin
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Rank 50. Pietramala
Vegetarian Italian
The open kitchen takes up half the dining room at this cozy vegan restaurant in Northern Liberties, which runs on foraged produce, small local suppliers, and the chef's own ferments and preserves. The menu is shareable Italian-inflected plates, around three per person, with a casual Northern Liberties crowd that books the place solid most nights. A James Beard semifinalist, and one of those spots that makes vegetable-forward feel like a choice rather than a compromise.
The awards
- Bon Appétit Bon Appétit: America's Best New Restaurants
- Esquire Esquire: The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- Bon Appétit America's Best New Restaurants
- Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 53. Shizen
Vegan Sushi
A vegan sushi bar and izakaya in the Mission where the kitchen treats a vegetable as a puzzle to solve rather than a garnish to apologize for. The team ferments, pickles, and sears produce into nigiri, rolls, and ramen that hold their own on the merits, not on goodwill. The room is sleek and lively, drawing skeptics alongside the converted. A Michelin Selected Restaurant.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle: Best vegetarian and vegan restaurants in the SF Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco Chronicle: Best Sushi Restaurants in San Francisco Bay Area
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- San Francisco Chronicle Best vegetarian and vegan restaurants in the SF Bay Area
- San Francisco Chronicle Best Sushi Restaurants in San Francisco Bay Area
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The awards
- USA Today USA Today: Restaurants of the Year
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Briana Kim's intimate tasting menu restaurant on Somerset runs nine vegetarian courses that lean hard on fermentation, and the results smell more like a forest than a salad. House-made sesame tofu arrives in pine-smoked tea broth with seaweed mole, a sentence that shouldn't work but does. Preserved figs in black-garlic oil show up somewhere, and you're glad they did. Wine pairings or house-made non-alcoholic drinks round out an evening that is quietly, stubbornly its own thing.
The awards
- Canada's 100 Best Canada's 100 Best: #76 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 55. Camion
Vegetarian French Coffee Shop
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Rank 55. Chana
Vegetarian Indian
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Rank 55. Ferri
Vegetarian Italian
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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On the edge of National Park De Biesbosch, this inn serves a seasonal surprise menu that skips meat and fish entirely, letting things like tomato tartare and mushroom bisque carry the evening. Organic wines, a few rooms upstairs, and the kind of quiet that reminds you how loud cities are. The crowd tends toward people who planned the drive and have nowhere to be the next morning.
The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Rank 55. La Casa de Las Mayoras
Vegetarian Mexican
A vegetarian breakfast spot in downtown Cancún where the tortillas are hand-pressed and the salsas are seasoned with evident purpose. Chilaquiles, quesadillas, and tostadas anchor the menu, with fruit batidos on hand if the heat gets serious. The room has the warmth of a family kitchen rather than a health-food statement. On good days, Guato, a chihuahua-beagle mix of considerable local renown, holds court on the premises.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Infatuation: The Best Restaurants In Cancún
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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A fully plant-based restaurant in Amsterdam where the menu runs to things like pickle sorbet alongside potato salad, which tells you immediately whether you're the target audience. The room is intimate, the cooking is inventive without being smug about it, and the front-of-house pairs organic and biodynamic wines with a seriousness that matches the kitchen. For a vegan dinner that doesn't taste like a moral lecture, this one has a following.
The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
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The awards
- Lekker 500 Lekker 500: 2026 · Lekker 500
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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The awards
- Air Canada Air Canada: 2019 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best Canada's 100 Best: Recommends
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The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
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Tucked inside ABC Carpet & Home, this vegetarian restaurant runs on the kind of clean-lined, chandelier-scattered energy that makes a green juice feel entirely appropriate in a wine glass. The menu moves through breakfast, brunch, and lunch with pressed juices and kombuchas alongside clever plant-based plates. The New York Times named it among the 100 best restaurants in the city, which the business crowd and the ladies-who-lunch set have known for a while.
The awards
- The New York Times The New York Times: 2017 · 2 stars · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times The New York Times: #48 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
- The New York Times 2017 · 2 stars · Restaurant Review
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The New York Times #48 · The 100 Best Restaurants in New York City
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The awards
- Eater The 18 Essential Restaurants in Asheville, North Carolina
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Southeast · Jason Sellers
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The dining room runs turquoise, pink, and lemon yellow, which tells you something about the spirit of this vegetarian restaurant in the Golden Triangle. The menu reads simply but the plates arrive complex, the kitchen finding real depth in seasonal produce without announcing the effort. Zero-proof cocktails get the same careful treatment as the wine list, which leans biodynamic. A weeknight tasting menu keeps the tab surprisingly manageable.
The awards
- 5280 The 25 Best Restaurants in Denver
- Westword The Top 50 Restaurants in Denver Right Now
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Denver
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The awards
- Philadelphia Magazine Philadelphia Magazine: #17 · 50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia
- Eater Eater: The 38 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia
- The Philadelphia Inquirer The Philadelphia Inquirer: The 76
- Philadelphia Magazine #17 · 50 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Philadelphia
- The Philadelphia Inquirer The 76
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The second-floor dining room on Avenue A reads like a very chic treehouse, all intimacy and low light. This vegan restaurant in the East Village brings a real polish to plant-based cooking, with dishes assembled like small arguments for taking the cuisine seriously. The menu occasionally wanders into paella and mole territory, which is a choice. It's a Michelin Selected spot, and the kind of room where nobody misses the meat.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ravi DeRossi - Overthrow Hospitality
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Ravi DeRossi - Overthrow Hospitality
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The counter seats overlooking the open kitchen are the ones to grab at this vegetarian neighbourhood eatery in Antwerp, which holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. The chef builds a plant-based, shareable menu around spices and umami balanced against bright, acidic notes, with a New York loft energy that feels less earnest than the genre usually manages. Vegan, unfussy, and easy on the wallet.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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A vegan restaurant in Busan's Yeongdo-gu where the name is short for "around plants," which tells you everything about the philosophy and nothing about how surprisingly complete the food turns out to be. The kitchen pairs plant-based dishes with house-made rice wine, and the coconut-oil cheese reads convincingly like cheddar. Bracken pasta made with dried ferns and mushrooms is a signature worth ordering. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Base is nice
Vegetarian Korean
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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A vegan bistro near Nordhavn where the kitchen grows its own mushrooms and sends foragers out for the rest. The room is simple, the atmosphere lively, and the tasting menu moves through enough techniques to make you forget you're being virtuous. The sparkling kombucha is house-made and worth ordering. Staff who know the menu inside out keep things from feeling preachy. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Clavius
Vegetarian Taiwanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. HanGawi
vegetarian Korean
You leave your shoes at the door, sink onto a cushion at a low table, and settle into what feels less like dinner and more like a scheduled exhale. HanGawi is an upscale, vegetarian-only Korean restaurant where the meditative music and temple artifacts are not ironic. The menu is entirely plant-based, the tea list gets as much attention as the wine list, and the Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Hum Garden
Vegetarian Vietnamese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Stone vaults overhead, a converted village inn on the southern edge of the Causse du Larzac, and a surprise set menu that changes with what the surrounding land offers. The chef came to this remote spot to cook her way, which means foraged mushrooms and plants doing most of the heavy lifting, and a dessert rooted in her Malagasy heritage. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the drive out past Navacelles is part of the deal.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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A medieval village square in the Savoie foothills is a fine place to find a modern vegetarian restaurant holding a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Vegetables carry the menu here, with the occasional fish or meat in a supporting role, and the kitchen sources everything with evident care. The evening mystery menu means you show up and find out, which is either thrilling or alarming depending on how you feel about courgette.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Buckwheat gnocchi with beetroot and sesame cream is the kind of dish that makes you forget you're eating vegan food, which is probably the point. Lucky Leek is a relaxed Prenzlauer Berg restaurant running three- to seven-course tasting menus built entirely from plants, with à la carte available if commitment isn't your thing. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand. In summer, the front terrace fills with a mix of locals and tourists who all seem very pleased with themselves.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Monsoon
Vegetarian Hakka
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. MTR 1924
vegetarian Indian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Ngọc Chi
Vegetarian Vietnamese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Prashad
Vegetarian Gujarati
A family-run vegetarian Indian restaurant in a former pub outside Bradford, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand for cooking rooted in Gujarati tradition. The bread alone, naan and rotli made with real care, would justify the drive. You can go à la carte, share a set menu, or commit to a full tasting, which for a place this warm and unfussy feels like exactly the right way to spend an evening.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Qing Chun Perma
Vegetarian Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Five shipping containers stacked on Wapping Wharf somehow add up to one of Bristol's most cheerful restaurants. Root holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and earns it through vegetable-forward sharing plates that make carrots and hispi cabbage feel like the main event, sourced from small local suppliers and seasoned with real conviction. The room buzzes, the team keeps things moving, and you'll find yourself ordering more than you planned.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Meat appears here as a side dish, which tells you something about the kitchen's priorities at this organic country restaurant in the Swabian Alb. The Tress family runs the whole operation on Demeter-certified principles, nose-to-tail when animal protein shows up at all. Portions lean small, so the table tends to share its way through several plates. A chestnut tree shades the terrace. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Serenity (Zhongzheng)
Vegetarian Sichuan
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Shamballa
Vegetarian Vietnamese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Shan Guo Tang
Vegetarian Taiwanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Shigetsu
Vegetarian Japanese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Soodle
Vegetarian Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The covered courtyard alone makes Spittelberg regulars possessive about this place. It's a vegetarian and vegan bistro with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, sitting in one of Vienna's liveliest eat-and-drink neighborhoods, and the minimalist interior manages to feel warm rather than clinical. The kitchen leans hard on organic and Demeter-certified produce, and the sharing menu is priced as though someone wants you to come back.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Tianchumiaoxiang Vegetarian (Chaoyang)
Vegetarian Chinese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Ưu Đàm
Vegetarian Vietnamese
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Wuwei Natural Food
Vegetarian Fujian
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 79. Zhi Zhu
Vegetarian Noodle Shop
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand